Played Right

Score-Based Aural Training for Advanced Music Students

Train your ear across 79 exclusive classical excerpts performed by professional musicians, spanning 5 genres. Perfect your sense of rhythm, harmony, melody and style. 2 training modes, 79 exercises and 980 mistakes to spot. All completely free.

Orchestra

  • 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E Major - 3rd Movement

  • 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 - 2nd Movement

  • 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Movement

  • 4

    Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 3 - 1st Movement

  • 5

    Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 - 3rd Movement

  • 6

    Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 104 (“London”) - 2nd Movement

  • 7

    Georg Friedrich Händel

    Sinfonia from ‘Messiah’

  • 8

    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 - 3rd Movement

  • 9

    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

    Violin Concerto - 1st Movement

  • 10

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto, KV 313 - 1st Movement

  • 12

    Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

  • 13

    Peter Iljitj Tjajkovskij

    Symphony No. 4 - 2nd Movement

Orchestra

The ever-greater sharpening of one's attentiveness and sensitivity to the relationship between what one is hearing and its representation in the score is a lifelong project for any classical musician. Right Playing - Wrong Playing is a collection of exercises meant to serve that end.

The repertoire comprises passages from classical works: orchestral music, choral music, chamber music, songs with accompaniment, and piano pieces. The challenge, then, is to listen to the music with errors [...] to listen to the music in the correct version on the blue CDs, and find the errors in RED BOOK, where these same errors are incorporated into the scores themselves. Where was the error? What was wrong? What were the musicians playing when not playing what is written? Right Playing - Wrong Playing!

The mistakes correspond to varying levels of difficulty. These may be further adjusted by making use of the clues associated with each exercise, which are designed to give helpful information.

Right Playing - Wrong Playing is essentially intended to be used as a basis for self-study. However, it may also be used in class at educational institutions, with each exercise potentially serving as a piece of homework.